Signals Software Engineer

Our client is hiring a Signals Software Engineer to build and enhance signal processing software, including detectors, demodulators, and protocol processors, for SIGINT mission systems. The engineer works independently or within a team and may lead development efforts. They contribute to system design and help diagnose problems across RF processing systems and the enterprise architecture around them., Signal processing development:

• Design and implement signal processing algorithms, including complex ones with strict timing, resource, or interface constraints.

• Apply signal processing techniques to convert and process signals, and identify digital modulation schemes.

• Design signal processing software even when documentation is thin.
• Build and maintain software frameworks that process data efficiently.
• Write software in C++ and Java, and recommend other languages when a problem calls for them.

Software engineering:

• Derive software design and performance requirements from user needs.
• Write new code or add features to existing software; debug and correct defects.
• Modify software to fix errors, support new hardware, or improve performance.
• Integrate existing software into new or changed systems and environments.
• Use scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure design outcomes.
• Analyze system flow, data usage, and work processes, and dig into problem areas.

Testing, troubleshooting, and quality:

• Help develop and run test procedures for software components, and document the results.
• Pinpoint the source of problems in RF processing systems and connected enterprise systems.
• Perform quality control on products, and write and review software and system documentation.

Collaboration and leadership:

• Work with systems and software engineers to define requirements, interfaces, project limits, and performance needs.

• Lead one or more development teams at the level the program’s process calls for.
• Recommend and implement improvements to documentation and development standards.

The ideal candidate is a software engineer with deep RF and DSP grounding who moves comfortably between signal theory and production code.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field. Four additional years of signals software engineering on projects with similar development processes may substitute for the degree.

• 7+ years as a signals software engineer, or equivalent, on RF-focused projects.
• Experience with Fourier transforms, filtering, communications theory, digital modulation, and error control coding.
• Digital signal processing experience, such as adaptive beamforming and filtering, and demodulation.
• Familiarity with signals analysis tools (e.g., WVT, DVT).
• Strong C++ and Java, and an advanced understanding of Linux.
• TS/SCI with a current Full Scope Polygraph at the time of application.

Base salary is $187,000-$204,000, supported by an exceptionally strong retirement benefit. 401(k): 25% employer contribution, vested immediately ($47,000-$51,000 per year).

Total compensation: $234,000-$255,000 (base salary plus employer 401(k) contributions).